As widely expected, the BoK kept interest rates steady at a record low of 2% on Thursday. Sharmila Whelan, senior economist at CLSA, offers her take on what this means for the Korean won going forward, with CNBC's Chloe Cho.
Novartis is opening on Tuesday the country's first plant to produce flu vaccines using cell cultures. These vaccines are faster, better and cheaper to make than egg-based methods, reports CNBC's Mike Huckman.